Now Labour MP shares web post calling May ‘ugly’
LABOUR MP Emma Dent Coad was condemned yesterday for sharing an online post calling Theresa May ‘ugly’.
The Kensington MP shared a quote from roald Dahl’s book The Twits alongside a photo of the Prime Minister.
The quote read: ‘If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face... the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.’ Miss Dent Coad wrote ‘love this’ as she shared it on Twitter.
Labour leader Mr Corbyn, meanwhile, was described in the same post as ‘lovely’.
The post prompted a backlash, with Tory MPs leaping to Mrs May’s defence and accusing Miss Dent Coad of being full of ‘hatred and envy’.
Miss Dent Coad was also criticised two weeks ago after it emerged she called a black Tory candidate ‘a token ghetto boy’ in 2010.
The roald Dahl tweet was originally written by a supporter of Mr Corbyn.
A picture of Mr Corbyn smiling is captioned: ‘A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
‘You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.’
Miss Dent Coad defended her tweet when she was asked about it on Sky News. ‘It is a joke,’ she said. ‘It is roald Dahl and the things that I’ve
‘She needs to look in a mirror’
had thrown at me over the last five months you would not believe.’
She added: ‘I have had four death threats. Making a joke about the roald Dahl thing, I think, is pretty minor compared to some of the stuff other people get all day.’
But Tory MP Nadine Dorries said: ‘I think she needs to look in a mirror. This isn’t a surprise.
‘The new Labour Party MPs are so full of hatred and envy it spills straight out of their lips.’
Miss Dent Coad previously caused controversy after referring to David Cameron’s former adviser Shaun Bailey as a ‘token ghetto boy’.
She also referred to him as a ‘freeloading scumbag’ and a ‘low life’.
On her blog in 2010, she drew a stick man being hanged from the Tory Party tree logo, which Tory MP Kemi Badenoch said looked like a black person.
Two Conservative MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn demanding he take action against the Labour MP over her comments.
One of the pair, James Cleverly, revealed on Sunday that Miss Dent Coad had blocked him on Twitter, writing: ‘So @EmmaDentCoad has blocked me, perhaps she doesn’t like black Tories reading her tweets. I wonder why.’
Labour has so far refused to suspend her from the party, although she eventually apologised to Mr Bailey ‘if I offended him’.
Miss Dent Coad became the first Labour MP for Kensington at the general election in June, winning by just 20 votes. She is an antimonarchist andcaused an outcry during the Labour conference after accusing qualified pilot Prince Harry of not being able to fly a helicopter.
A Labour Party spokesman declined to comment.